[PATCH] mempool: NOMEMALLOC and NORETRY
Mempools have 2 problems.
The first is that mempool_alloc can possibly get stuck in __alloc_pages
when they should opt to fail, and take an element from their reserved pool.
The second is that it will happily eat emergency PF_MEMALLOC reserves
instead of going to their reserved pools.
Fix the first by passing __GFP_NORETRY in the allocation calls in
mempool_alloc. Fix the second by introducing a __GFP_MEMPOOL flag which
directs the page allocator not to allocate from the reserve pool.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 08e8627..04a35b3 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -799,14 +799,18 @@
}
/* This allocation should allow future memory freeing. */
- if (((p->flags & PF_MEMALLOC) || unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE))) && !in_interrupt()) {
- /* go through the zonelist yet again, ignoring mins */
- for (i = 0; (z = zones[i]) != NULL; i++) {
- if (!cpuset_zone_allowed(z))
- continue;
- page = buffered_rmqueue(z, order, gfp_mask);
- if (page)
- goto got_pg;
+
+ if (((p->flags & PF_MEMALLOC) || unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE)))
+ && !in_interrupt()) {
+ if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOMEMALLOC)) {
+ /* go through the zonelist yet again, ignoring mins */
+ for (i = 0; (z = zones[i]) != NULL; i++) {
+ if (!cpuset_zone_allowed(z))
+ continue;
+ page = buffered_rmqueue(z, order, gfp_mask);
+ if (page)
+ goto got_pg;
+ }
}
goto nopage;
}